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Politics Doesn’t Matter, Politics Matter

Politics won’t save you. Politics won’t solve your problems. Politics doesn’t make you a better human being. Not having a clue about politics is a virtue, rather than a vice.   ….until it’s not. When politics go bad — it’s bad. When politics go bad — it can kill you. When politics go bad — …

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Lifestyle Philosophy

Live Two or Three Lives

You live one life and then you die. That’s what makes it so valuable.   You go on vacations for a week and then you return to your old boring reality. Monday you are on vacations and next Monday you are back at work. Your vacations are even more boring than your work. But it’s …

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Lifestyle Spirituality

Love Your Life and Revile Your Plans

The contrived notion is that you should hustle so hard that you hate your life, then critically look in the mirror and still not be satisfied “no pain no gain” , “tough love”, etc But that your wonderful future, and your wonderful purpose, and your wonderful drive make it all sweet! That you feel SO …

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Lifestyle Philosophy

Solvable and Unsolvable Problems, Overcoming

There are problems you solve — and there are problems you consistently fail to solve.   What characterises problems you consistently fail to solve? -Too big and complex for you to even get going. Barrier of entry, barrier to even starting to make a change is too steep -“Simple but not easy”: hidden layers of …

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Lifestyle World

About Travelling

The value of travelling is not travelling. The value of travelling is THE NEW.   The value of THE NEW is that the new is the promise of growth, evolution. You can’t have growth without changing, without developing into something different, something new indeed. On a deeper level — the value of the NEW is …

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Philosophy Spirituality

Ego is Stagnation

The moment you view yourself as more than no one is the moment you hindered your growth.   Growing is trying and failing, Learning is not knowing,   We think we understand this but we don’t. We “humble up” if necessary — until it becomes too threatening to humble up, Too threatening to our self-image. …

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Lifestyle Philosophy

Failure Is Real, Success Is Real

Let’s define success as: *tangibly doing a little better at something specific*, let’s define failure as: *failing to do better whatsoever at something specific*,   Success is not merely “doing better”. Anything can be defined as better or worse. You have to be specific. This is the trap of the “conventionally successful”. They think they …

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Empowering Leadership

It’s easy to lead when everyone follows, It’s hard to lead when some fail to follow.   It’s hard to cut the weakest link, But it’s not that hard. What’s even harder is to transmute this inadequacy into competence   Now learning is easy — until it gets hard. Teaching is easy — until it …

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